--- title: En mo'n dat, Brer Rabbit up'n tell Brer Fox dat his chillun's mighty… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: En mo'n dat, Brer Rabbit up'n tell Brer Fox dat his chillun's mighty low wid de fever, en he bleedzd ter go atter some pills fer'm, en he ax Brer Fox fer ter take his place en go down ter Miss Meadows's en have nice time wid de gals. Who acts: En mo'n dat, Fox, ter, Brer fer ter. A sentence of «Uncl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/) / 29 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 29 En mo'n dat, Brer Rabbit up'n tell Brer Fox dat his chillun's mighty low wid de fever, en he bleedzd ter go atter some pills fer'm, en he ax Brer Fox fer ter take his place en go down ter Miss Meadows's en have nice time wid de gals. **Who acts:** En mo'n dat, Fox, ter, Brer fer ter, en · **What happens:** tell, dat, bleedz, go, ax, take · **To what, where:** Brer Fox, wid de fever, place en, nice de gals · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En mo'n dat, Fox, ter, Brer fer ter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:32:29 # text = En mo'n dat, Brer Rabbit up'n tell Brer Fox dat his chillun's mighty low wid de fever, en he bleedzd ter go atter some pills fer'm, en he ax Brer Fox fer ter take his place en go down ter Miss Meadows's en have nice time wid de gals. 1 En En PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 mo'n mo'n NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dat dat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Rabbit Rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 up'n up'n CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 dat dat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 chillun chillun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bleedzd bleedz VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 ter ter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 atter att ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 28 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 compound _ _ 29 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 ax ax NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 36 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 fer fer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 ter ter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 down down ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 ter ter SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 46 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Meadows Meadows PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 en en NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 50 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 51 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 52 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 compound _ _ 53 wid wid NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 gals gal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | En mo'n dat *not said here* | | Brer Fox | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | | 2 | **dat** | past | En mo'n dat | Fox's chillun's wid de fever and en | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bleedz** | past | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | present | ter | | | | | att *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ax** | | Fox | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | infinitive | Brer fer ter | Fox's place en | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme | | 7 | **go down** | infinitive | Brer fer ter *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **have** | present | Miss Meadows's en | nice de gals | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gal=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/30/) - ↑ back to [XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/32/)